2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Print > Feature Article - General Interest > Less Than $3 Million Revenue > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Lorelei Laird, Legal Affairs Writer
Entry details
A Thousand Pardons: Clemency Project 2014 is out to help prisoners doing excessive time from the days of inflexible sentencing
Issue date (if applicable): 7/1/2015
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: www.abajournal.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation’s 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession. Readership includes the 400,000 members of the American Bar Association and readers of ABAJournal.com, which is available for free to the public.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
This is an important, complex topic and writer Lorelei Laird lays out the scope of the problem - thousands of prisoners petitioning for clemency, with little to no infrastructure to meaningfully process and consider their claims. Even more than a year after the Justice Department announced its ambitious project to provide relief to those deemed victims of over sentencing, little has been accomplished. Laird explains the issues through the stories of hopeful convicts and frustrated lawyers as they scramble through the final days of the Obama administration seeking clemency relief.
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A Thousand Pardons: Clemency Project 2014 is out to help prisoners doing excessive time from the days of inflexible sentencing
Category
Print > Feature Article - General Interest > Less Than $3 Million Revenue > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
ABA Journal
Company:
American Bar Association
Winner Status
- National Gold Award
- Regional Gold Award
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